(Updated: 11 a.m.) The leaders of both Iowa and the nation celebrated the legend of Norman Borlaug, Iowa’s native son, at a ceremony today intended to honor the man credited with saving a billion people from starvation.
At the unveiling of a statue of Borlaug in the U.S. Capitol’s National Statuary Hall, members ...

Iowa’s top public-health official denied today that she was implying that the food-stamp program should be cut when she falsely said that soda was the most popular item Iowans purchase with their benefits.
“It was not political at all,” Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks said today in an interview at the Iowa Department ...

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Apparently Tony Blair doesn’t have any particular cravings for American food.
“What should I be eating?” Blair, a Scotland-born former prime minister of Britain, said when asked what foods he’s tasting while in Iowa.
The Des Moines Register asked if Blair hunts for some food ...

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During a speech in Iowa today, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair dropped a hint about electing a woman president.
Was that a nudge for voters to consider Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state who became a friend of Blair’s during Bill ...

Protesters in downtown Des Moines didn’t temper their varied but strident criticism of this year’s World Food Prize and genetically modified crops.
The prize, they said, was illegitimate and propaganda giving credibility to companies like Monsanto and DuPont. Genetically modified food is unhealthy for people, they said, a symptom of greed ...

Gerrid Gus, a Canadian farmer, told peers from across the world that size doesn’t necessarily guarantee profitability.
“There are 1,000-acre farmers that aren’t sustainable … there are 1,000-acre farms that don’t make money,” Gus said during a round-table discussion with global farmers at the World Food Prize symposium in downtown Des ...

Iceland President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson will discuss global warming and his nation’s development of clean energy sources in a talk set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 16) at Drake University’s Sheslow Auditorium, 2507 University Ave.
Grimsson will discuss how Iceland transformed its energy system and the benefits to it’s economy and ...

12:50 p.m.: The lunch at the Iowa Hunger Summit comes from two organizations that feed the world. Outreach Inc. provided bowls of fortified rice and beans, as well as fortified macaroni and cheese developed at Iowa State University. Mary’s Meals provided the corn porridge it gives to children in Malawi, ...

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Bill Horan, who farms near Rockwell City, said genetically modified crops have afforded him the time to watch his children’s baseball games and dance recitals.
Ron Rosmann, meanwhile,blamed the biologically engineered crops for the lack of ring-necked pheasant and other wildlife on his Harlan-area ...